[Amadou]

I think the better result for us is that the more monolithic the thinking is within the NSA the more they are going to over-step in such a way that even their most ardent supporters outside the agency will have to abandon them.

I'd like to think the no-fly-zoning of Bolivia's president is an example of that sort of thinking exposing itself for public embarrassment/criticism. Here's hoping they keep digging their own hole deeper and deeper.

[selimthegrim]

Blast from the past (wrt monolithic thinking):

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2010/11/197...

http://www.parsarts.com/2010/11/29/tehran-wikileaks-1979-cab...

http://wikileaks.org/cable/1979/08/79TEHRAN8980.html

No wonder even Cyrus Vance couldn't save the State Dept. from becoming a giant noodly appendage after Carter.